Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048 with dancers Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 alongside dancers Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato with Ensemble Pygmalion Ensemble Pygmalion + Philharmonie de Paris Music Director : Raphael Pichon Dance : Saburo Teshigawara Dance : Rihoko Sato The radiant joy that flows from Bach s instrumental music is often synonymous with light. Thus from the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major BWV 1048, for three violins, three violas and three cellos on the support of the continuo. His only two known movements, in the clear key of G major and in the same allegro movement, are carried away in the lively movement of very lively dances. From this exhilaration of string instruments with unrestrained speech that does not seem to take breath, will we not say that it is radiant That is to say in the strict sense that it emits very bright light rays. Much more than dances, these two movements appear like the intense manifestation of the whole body stretched towards the light which flo br, br,